Do we need an extended evolutionary synthesis?

Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2743-2749

  Pigliucci, Massimo ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epigenetic inheritance; Evolutionary novelties; Extended evolutionary synthesis; Modern Synthesis; Paradigm shift; Phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; PARADIGM SHIFT; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY;

ADAPTATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; HISTORY; REVIEW;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ECOLOGY; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 36549087172     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00246.x     Document Type: Review

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